Stern 13. September 2019

Jean-Bernard Pommier (born August 17, 1944 in Beziers), is a French pianist and conductor. Pommier studied conducting at the Conservatoire de Paris with Yves Nat, Pierre Sancan and Eugene Bigot. In 1962 he won the International Competition for Young Musicians in Berlin. Then at 17 he was a finalist in the International Tchaikovsky Competition.[1] He has performed in recitals and as soloist with numerous orchestras and in several European festivals.

Pál Vasvári was a Hungarian jazz bassist, composer and music producer. He played electric bass as well as double bass. Vasvári studied double bass at the Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest and graduated in 1981. From 1979 he was a professional jazz musician and played as a bassist first in the group Bacillus and the Kőszegi Quartet. In 1984 he founded his first own band and intensified composing and arranging. In 1986, together with the pianist Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, the Magyar Jazz Quartet was born. In 2000 he founded the Vasvári String Trio with violinist Frankie Látó and guitarist Miklós Birta. He worked regularly with foreign musicians on stage as well as in the studio, such as Dave Samuels, Alex Acuña, Russell Ferrante or Mike Stern. His album Outsider by Pál Vasvari and the Soul Six Band was released in 2011.